Aker Case Study: Empowering Strategic and Tactical Decisions

Seerist Empowers Tactical and Strategic Decision Making

Aker Security, operates with a group-wide mandate and facilitates 24/7 emergency and non-emergency security services for all Aker portfolio companies globally. The Aker group is an industrial conglomerate with companies concentrated within the sectors of oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, industrial software, seafood, and marine biotechnology.  Aker Security is responsible for securing and ensuring the safety of Aker group staff worldwide and enabling an efficient workplace. The Aker Security team supports 75 legal entities, 45 global assets, and more than 33,000 employees across all facets of security including events, geopolitical analysis, physical asset monitoring, information technology security, and employee travel security. Aker Security works closely with Aker on strategic planning, coordination, security advice, and initiatives for companies across the Aker group. 

A SEERIST CASE STUDY

Aker Security

The Customer

With a mindset of continually enhancing its security operations, Aker Security began using the Core platform 6 years ago with Control Risks. Initially, it was primarily used for compliance, information gathering, and analysis. As the scope of the security mandate expanded, so did its use of the Core solution. Following the 2022 merger of Geospark Analytics and Controls Risks Core, which formed Seerist, Inc., Aker Security decided to move to the new Seerist solution, which offered a larger array of threat forecasting and monitoring, risk intelligence, and analysis capabilities. 

The Opportunity

Before the formation of Seerist, Aker group security functions, leveraged the CORE solution to support its strategic and compliance initiatives. CORE provided the users with access to reliable expert analysis and forecasting on key political, security, operational, and cyber risks and threats to all employees, including its travelers, and assets. In addition to strategic forecasting, Aker group security functions used CORE’s content to support mergers and acquisitions, new market entry assessments, and associated due diligence processes. Aker group cyber security functions leveraged the +Cyber offering to understand current threats and emerging trends in the fast-evolving cyber landscape. After trialing the Seerist solution, Aker Security found Seerist to be a valuable addition to its solution portfolio due to its faster, real-time data capabilities and the ability to anticipate potential threat events before they unfold. They also saw the value in the human verification of threat data, and the contextual insight needed to build decision confidence for leaders across the group. As they fully implement the broad array of Seerist capabilities, Aker Security, including the Global Security Operations Center, will be using different features of the platform to support each team’s specific focus or mission. This includes:

The Solution

Aker Security has already seen value in using Seerist for threat and risk intelligence forecasting and monitoring, as well as robust analysis and contextual insights capabilities. Key benefits include:

The Results

“The validation of the information, the company [Seerist], and the people working at Seerist are all high quality. If you have to choose a new product, it has to be better than the one you have. We know that value of it [Seerist].”

Usefulness Across Functions Seerist is serving as a one-stop-shop for information, impacting various functions positively. Improved Decision-Making The platform standardizes processes, enhances information validation, and streamlines decision-making. Reduced Time to Reporting The “out of the box” reports and charts have cut the time needed to create reports for key stakeholders.  Ease of Use Quick adoption by individuals using the advanced capabilities that come with Seerist

Critical event monitoring and alerting through the creation of keyword searches to filter through Seerist’s near-real-time open-source data.

Seerist has positively impacted Aker Security by providing a unified, efficient platform for information and risk management.

Aina Slinning, Security Director at Aker ASA

75

legal entities

45

global assets

33K

employees

As the organization was trialing the Seerist solution, it realized that many of the new capabilities, such as the near-real-time event alerting and forecasting capabilities could be leveraged by its Global Security Operations Center to provide the team with a full array of intelligence to enable strategic and tactical decision-making.

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Country and regional stability tracking to uncover potential threats

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Sentiment and emotion charting to assess how the public is reacting to unfolding events

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Verified Events that are confirmed and expertly geolocated by Seerist’s intel team to build data confidence

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Expert analysis to understand and forecast security and political risk trends

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Hotpots to quickly spot anomalous activity that poses immediate threats

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Evacuation Watch for planning and advice when security situations unfold

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Custom alerts and notifications for tripwires, custom searches, expert analysis and outlooks, and asset tracking

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Critical event monitoring and alerting through the creation of keyword searches to filter through Seerist’s near-real-time open-source data Country and regional stability tracking to uncover potential threats Sentiment and emotion charting to assess how the public is reacting to unfolding events Verified Events that are confirmed and expertly geolocated by Seerist’s intel team to build data confidence Expert analysis to understand and forecast security and political risk trends Hotpots to quickly spot anomalous activity that poses immediate threatsEvacuation Watch for planning and advice when security situations unfoldCustom alerts and notifications for tripwires, custom searches, expert analysis and outlooks, and asset tracking

Critical event monitoring and alerting through the creation of keyword searches to filter through Seerist’s near-real-time open-source data. Country and regional stability tracking to uncover potential threats

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Sentiment and emotion charting to assess how the public is reacting to unfolding events Verified Events that are confirmed and expertly geolocated by Seerist’s intel team to build data confidence

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Expert analysis to understand and forecast security and political risk trends Hotpots to quickly spot anomalous activity that poses immediate threats

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Evacuation Watch for planning and advice when security situations unfold Custom alerts and notifications for tripwires, custom searches, expert analysis and outlooks, and asset tracking

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physical asset monitoring

geopolitical analysis

strategicplanning

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